John Kelk

Sir John Kelk, 1st Baronet (16 February 1816 – 12 September 1886) Ellen Maud (died 1938), Married Frederick William Maud, son of Sir George Ashley Maude. John William (1851–1923), became 2nd Baronet George Edward (1852–1876) Arthur Sanders (1854–1855) Charles James (1856–1874)

Construction career Buildings Kelk started his career, after a commercial education, as an apprentice of builder Thomas Cubitt, with whom he later had fierce competition, and then went into partnership with William Newton. Upon Newton's retirement, he amalgamated the business with another Mayfair builder, John Elger, and then worked on rebuilding houses in Grosvenor Square, and churches St. Michael's Church, Chester Square, and All Saints, Margaret Street. and became a member of the Institution of Civil Engineers in 1861, a Justice of the Peace (JP) and Deputy Lieutenant for Middlesex, and a JP and High Sheriff of Hampshire in 1884.

He died at his home, Tedworth House, on 12 September 1886, and was buried in Kensal Green Cemetery under a ledger-stone of the pink granite also used in the Albert Memorial.